Tomorrow Is A Mystery:
Think about it with me…Every future moment is a mystery! Everything we do not know is a mystery! We cannot only guess, speculate and wonder about the Great Unknown of Mystery.
That future breath just waiting for our lungs to inhale, and then exhale? A mystery moment waiting to reveal. Success? Failure? Our next heartbeat? Will that next squeeze of our heart muscle work? We’ve heard of “The Widow Maker”, that heart attack waiting in the wings of our body for the right moment to trigger a major, life-threatening entrance. On the other side of that Great Unknown? It’s a Great Mystery!
If every moment of every day is a mystery, how do we live through the stresses that the Great Unknown present to us every moment of every day? Since we struggle with knowing the next moment, we should live life looking forward, studying the next step we take and ensure we are headed in the best direction, prepared to respond, act, or react.
I’ve been reading some of the ancient stories of the march of humanity around the globe.
Where did we source from? Where was Eden? Did our progenitors have any idea of how far we would advance, in distance and growth? Where do we go from here? What will life be for our offspring? Are we making good decisions for the future to look back at us and wonder?
Part of my wonderment comes from my interest in history and future. but I live in the present. So. Study backward but think ahead…
Are the stars our future? Stephen Hawking thinks so and even suggests that we must prepare to leave earth if we are to survive as a species and that we need to be successfully heading for the stars within 200 years.
“We are running out of space and the only places to go to are other worlds.” ~Stephen W Hawking (Source)
One of my favorite science fiction stories was by James Blish, “Cities in Flight” – a futurist series of stories (1950-1962) that was eerily reminiscent of the American Migrant workers of the Dust Bowl era back in the Dirty 30’s (the 1930’s). He describes the migration to the stars by humans, and by entire cities who used a new anti-gravity technology called the spindizzy that allowed them to exit a dying planet. Through known technology, they leaped into space to a mystery.
A mystery. The past is a huge mystery and we only discover what archeologists, scientist, and authors can reveal. The future is a huge mystery because there are too many opportunities for a “sudden discovery” that will change everything as we know it. Those who think into the future are like Hari Seldon in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of books. (You just have to understand my love for good science fiction that focuses heavily on future space travel!) Hari developed an understanding of the future on a large scale and good predict what the future held. But he would not live long enough to know whether it came true!
That’s why the future is a huge mystery!
We don't get to live long enough to see the future unfold in its entirety.... Share on XThis brings me to my thought. Right now is almost enough mystery for any of us to handle! I cannot undo the past and repair so that we have a better present. But I can possibly make changes today to help the future survive long after I’m gone. It takes more than just a single person, however. It takes all of us. Caring about the mystery of tomorrow.
The future can be changed by how we live today. That Great Mystery of the afterlife? Sure. Changes today help, especially if you believe. The Great Mystery of our planet? Again. Sure. Changes today help. But what kind of changes? We keep building the population spectrum and we will outgrow our resources. We keep polluting and we’ll kill the planet faster.
But one thing keeps coming back to me, and it was said 2,000 years ago.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
(Matthew 6:34 NKJV)
Jesus was not talking about ignoring future ramifications of present-day actions! If we always worry forward our lives will be full of anxiety, and I understand they have good drugs to calm those feelings. Nor does he mean we should ignore present life and do whatever we want because there’s always tomorrow to repair things. I think his focus is more about being concerned for the moment we live in…right now…and what can you do about it to make the present better. Better “today’s” can mean better “tomorrow’s”. Tomorrow will have enough concerns of its own!
Check in with yourself for a moment.
What are you doing now that can change future outcomes? Choices we make now will affect the generations of our future!
Do you even know what you need to be doing? That may be part of the problem. Self-analysis does not always work, especially if we are working in the dark. It takes some light. The very fact that you chose to read this far means you may be interested in having some revelation of who and where you are, and who and where you are headed! Finally. What do you think tomorrow holds? Do you want to go there? Making better choices today just may be your ticket!